oar

Example Sentences

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It’s like the waves, the rhythm, it takes two — you know, the two oars.

From Washington Post

The winners of the Class Day Regatta get a little pin with a gold oar and a white blade on it.

From Seattle Times

The show is rich in drawings, too: extremely fine studies of saints’ heads and soldiers’ armor, and quicker sketches in which crossed lines suddenly resolve into a gondola and its oars.

From New York Times

Another group loaded equipment with a heavy clanking into their boat, while a third pushed off silently with oars.

From New York Times

Two dozen rafts are tied up along the shore, and teams are ferrying oars, dry bags and coolers from a dirt parking lot down a 100-foot wooden ramp to the boats.

From Washington Post